2. The Pearl

3. Today’s objectives 11/5/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Determine if you agree or disagree with pre-reading statements Partake in class dicussion and make predictions about the story Understand Miss Philipp’s expectations for The Pearl Unit NO HOMEWORK We will begin reading the pearl tomorrow!

4. Your job for today To be successful you must complete the following: When you receive the anticipation guide, please write your name on it Read the questions and mark whether you agree or disagree with the statement in the “before reading” column Answer the questions that follow, in 3-5 sentences!! Consider the last question: you do not need to write a response but be prepared to share

5. Your job for today To be successful you must: do all of the following Q U I E T L Y Please have your book and post-it tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencil When you get unit guide handout, please put your name on it…and take a look at the different categories

6. Your job for today To be successful you must: 2 more things: Post its & the books themselves  #’s

7. Today’s objectives 11/6/13 You will be able to: Partake in class discussion and determine “what is…is not” thus far in our reading of the pearl Interpret the exposition of the story & discuss important events/symbolism Homework: Read chapter two! Continue to Annotate for the following: Blue: Characterization Yellow: symbolism AND ****Pink: Conflict

8. Today’s objectives 11/6/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Partake in class dicussion and make predictions about the story Understand Miss Philipp’s expectations for The Pearl Unit Interpret the exposition of the story Homework: Read chapter one! Annotate for the following: Blue: Characterization Yellow: symbolism

9. Background/expectations  John Steinbeck  Pearls/Kino  Annotations

10. Your job for today To be successful you must: Please have your book and post-it tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencil Pull out your unit guide and symbolism chart

11. Today’s objectives 11/7/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Identify important events and symbolism in chapter 2 of The pearl Homework: Read chapter three & fill out symbolism sheet! Continue to Annotate for the following: Blue: Characterization Yellow: symbolism Pink: Conflict

12. PEARL VOCAB  Estuary: bay, sound, inlet  Nayarit: located in Western Mexico  nah-yah-reet  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18 E58vOTus http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T18 E58vOTus

13. Your job for today To be successful you must: do all of the following Q U I E T L Y Please have your book and post-it tabs out on your desk w/ a pen/pencil Pull out your unit guide You need a symbolism chart BEFORE YOU LEAVE CLASS!

14. Today’s objectives 11/7/13 You will be able to: Interpret the exposition of the story & discuss important events/symbolism within chapter 1 of The Pearl Homework: Read chapter two and fill out symbolism sheet Continue to Annotate for the following: Blue: Characterization Yellow: symbolism Add  Pink: Conflict

15. Today’s objectives 11/12/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: As a class – determine classroom expectations Discuss and interpret importance of chapter 2 Homework: Read chapter 3

16. Your job for today: Expectations and then some…  Begin working in assigned groups  Fill out all symbol boxes from chapters 1-3 (pgs. 1 – 40)  Complete box chart for chapter 3 tonight  Chapter 3 quiz tomorrow!

17. Today’s objectives 11/14/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Determine correct answers to chapter 3 Quiz Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within the story Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…potential quiz on important passages…

18. Today’s objectives 11/15/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: D.E.A.R – FIRST 20 MINUTES Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within the story Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…potential quiz on important passages…

19. Today’s objectives 11/15/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: D.E.A.R – FIRST 20 MINUTES Determine correct answers to chapter 3 Quiz Homework: Read chapter 4 - Due Monday…potential quiz on important passages…

20. ALMOST OUTTA HERE… 11/18/13 Happy Monday Thanksgiving is coming Please have out your book, the post-it I handed you, and a pen

21. Respond to the following in at least 2 sentences… READ the following quote: “All of the neighbors hoped that sudden wealth would not turn Kino’s head, would not make a rich man of him, would not graft onto him the evil limbs of greed and hatred and coldness. For Kino was a well-liked man; it would be a shame if the pearl destroyed him. ‘That good wife Juana,’ they said, ‘and the beautiful baby Coyotito, and the others to come. What a pity it would be if the pearl should destroy them all” (Steinbeck 43). Demonstrating your understanding of this passage, analyze the symbolic importance. That is, explain what symbolic idea/theme it connects to and how you know! 2 sentences!!!

22. Today’s objectives 11/18/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within the story Homework: Passage analysis quiz

23. Today’s objectives 11/19/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within the story Focus: Chapter 4 Analyze passages and answer questions correctly Homework: Read chapter 5 and annotate And chapter 6 – we will finish the book this week

24. Today’s objectives 11/20/13 YOU WILL BE ABLE TO: Discuss and interpret importance of symbols within the story Focus: Chapter5 Analyze passages and answer questions correctly Homework: And chapter 6 – we will finish the book this week

25. The pearl symbolic level of interpretation. The pearl is a pearl of great price represents the vanity of human wishes Kino can do all the things that he has never dared to do before. Steinbeck's warning is to symbolize the evil, and only by casting it away can Kino regain a spiritual sense of well- being.

26. The pearl symbolic level of interpretation. SONGS whenever Kino has a particularly powerful feeling or instinct, he hears a song in his head that corresponds to that feeling. When he is happy : he hears the Song of the Family. When he senses malice or dishonesty: he hears the Song of Evil. the songs actually give form to kino and his people’s inner feelings.

27. The pearl symbolic level of interpretation. SETTING RICH VS. POOR WHAT IS SIGNIFICANT ABOUT THE LOCATION…WHY THE GULF? "The uncertain air that magnified some things and blotted out others hung over the whole Gulf so that all sights were unreal and vision could not be trusted; so that sea and land had the sharp clarities and the vagueness of a dream."

28. The pearl symbolic level of interpretation. ANIMALS Reactions, actions, and instincts…

29. The pearl symbolic level of interpretation. Hands LEFT VS. RIGHT Let’s look at your chart

30. The pearl LIGHT AND DARK LIGHT: HAPPINESS POSTIVITY “LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL” What is constantly described with light? DARK: SADNESS NEGATIVITY DARKNESS – NO WAY OUT What is constantly described with dark?

31. The pearl ULTIMATE DOOM! life and death and the meaning of both. During the course of the story, a simple family, through no particular fault, is brought to a tragic end. Their pearl is supposed to be used to bring their child out of darkness and into the world of light; he will be able to learn to read and write, and he will then be able to help all of the natives. Instead, the pearl becomes the direct instrument of the child's death.

32. The pearl RECAP! major conflict : After finding a magnificent pearl, Kino seeks to sell it to acquire wealth. He wishes for his son’s wound to heal, and for his son to obtain an education and become an equal to the European colonists who keep his people in a state of ignorance and poverty. When he tries to sell the pearl, however, Kino quickly meets resistance in the form of other people’s greed. Ultimately, his struggle to acquire wealth places him at odds with his family, his culture, and nature, as Kino himself succumbs to greed and violence.

33. The pearl rising action A scorpion stings Coyotito; Kino discovers a great pearl; Kino’s attempts to sell the pearl are unsuccessful, and he is mysteriously attacked; Kino beats Juana for attempting to discard the pearl. climax · Kino kills a man who attacks him for his pearl, an event that exposes the tension surrounding this object as a bringer of great evil as well as a chance for salvation.

34. The pearl falling action · Kino and Juana flee the village and find themselves chased by trackers; Kino fights with the trackers, not knowing that they have taken Coyotito’s cry to be that of a coyote and shot him; Kino and Juana return to the village and throw the pearl back into the sea. RESOLUTION

35. The pearl themes Greed as a destructive force; the roles of fate and agency in shaping human life; colonial society’s oppression of native cultures